We need to challenge our own thinking.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.